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    Definition (category Philosophical logic)
    A homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings. Thus homonyms are...
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    correct sentence in English that is often presented as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs...
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  • like the Bauhaus diary, and is a play on the English homonym 'deform' and on the French homonym 'difforme' (deformed). Die Form is the primary project...
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    Semantics (category Concepts in logic)
    language of first-order logic and programming languages. Antonym is an antonym of synonym. Some linguists use the term homonym for both phenomena. Some...
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  • and the Japanese are superstitious about the number four because it is a homonym for "death" in their languages. In Slavic mythology, the god Svetovid has...
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  • goad, beg, boast by indirect verbal or gestural means". Signifyin(g) is a homonym with the concept of signification put forth by semiotician Ferdinand de...
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  • words, but only by exploiting English-speakers' extensive vocabulary of homonyms and idioms The built-in redundancy of natural languages allows utterances...
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  • Colemanballs Dundrearyism Error (linguistics) Freudian slip Goldwynisms Homonym Johnny Dangerously Mondegreen Mumpsimus Norm Crosby Trailer Park Boys "'Yogisms':...
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  • way for you." This type of syllepsis operates in a similar manner to a homonymic pun. There are several other definitions of zeugma that encompass other...
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    on his 2011 tour. The following year, he released with the group the EP homonyms Troupe D’Elite, which was criticised by some music critics as a disfigurement...
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  • homiletic, homily, homogeneous, homograph, homologous, homology, homomorphism, homonym, homophobia, homophone, homosexual, homozygous homal- even, flat Greek...
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  • but based on a different type; only one of the homonyms is considered a valid designation (see homonym (biology)). Compare to synonym. hydronym: a name...
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  • a grocery store where normal products have been replaced by outlandish homonyms. The player must change all the oddities back to their original form by...
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  • series), "Neither Brute Nor Human" (Black Widowers series), "The Fourth Homonym" (Black Widowers series), "The Eye of the Beholder" (Azazel series), "The...
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  • Real Order is a topological ring (lalangue) and ex-sists as an infinite homonym. [T]he real in itself is meaningless: it has no truth for human existence...
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  • the same virtual address is mapped into different physical addresses (homonym), which can be solved by using physical address for tagging, or by storing...
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  • as part of the search. Likewise, the user would not need to worry about homonyms crowding the search results with irrelevant data such as information about...
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  • of the practice, its founder Mr. Li Hongzhi, and a wide assortment of homonyms are among the most censored terms on the Chinese internet. Any mention...
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    Syntactic Structures (category Philosophy of logic)
    indistinguishable within that level. This is called a "constructional homonymity" [sic]. The relevant ambiguity can be resolved by establishing a higher...
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  • delayed to the fourth year (this is often referred to as "a vicarage", a homonym of the residence of the Vicar). Typically at the end of the year of vicarage...
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  • financial institutions and the other of riparian zones, it is obvious that two homonyms have been confused. Which is "a conflict between truth and error" (Garver...
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  • possible”: "For all the Skriker’s monstrous malevolence, such an admirer of homonyms ('sham pain', 'morning becomes electric') could hardly scoff at Lacan,...
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  • direction," "ahead," "headway". Paronomastically, tao is equated with its homonym 蹈 tao < d'ôg, "to trample," "tread," and from that point of view it is...
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    from an attempt to disguise the word "cook". That "cook" and "coke" were homonyms at this time is shown by the fact that Coke's second wife, Elizabeth Hatton...
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    Archived from the original on 20 August 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2024. Kang is homonym with multiple meaning like mountain white... Albinia 2008, p. 288. Freeman...
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  • words illustrate the issues with "-ea-". Words "cream" and "cram" are homonyms in Runglish: Крем, "krem" word may refer both to creamy goods and (sometimes)...
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    Amboinense by Georg Eberhard Rumphius where Rumphius said that coccus was a homonym of coccum and coccus from Greek κόκκος kokkos meaning "grain" or "berry"...
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  • "Hallucination" 1985 Gold Boys' Life, February, March and April 1985 "The Fourth Homonym" 1985 Puzzles of the Black Widowers The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years...
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  • Prichard further reads Nakahira's 1974 installation Overflow (Hanran, a homonym for "revolt"), which was produced as Nakahira was assembling Why and Illustrated...
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  • reproduced in the form of a mouse’s tail.” The verbal relationship between the homonyms tale/tail was later made more explicit by some of the book's illustrators...
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